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New Moons
A team of astronomers using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, which officially surpasses Jupiter (79 moons).
January 16, 2020
An international team of astronomers has used the Keck Observatory on Maunakea to identify the most distant group of galaxies identified in the Universe to date. […]
January 15, 2020
A team of astronomers have used the Subaru telescope on Maunakea to detect the presence of complex organic molecules from a comet (Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner) in our […]
December 6, 2019
An international collaboration led by Gemini and University of Hawai`i astronomers used four Maunakea observatories (CFHT, Keck, IRTF, and UH88) to shed new light on the […]
November 26, 2019
An international team of astronomers have used the Keck telescopes on Maunakea to detect water vapor for the first time above the surface of Europa, one […]
November 12, 2019
A team of astronomers have developed a new method for measuring the Hubble Constant – the expansion rate of the universe. Using W. M. Keck Observatory’s […]
November 4, 2019
A team of astronomers have used the combination of the Subaru and Gemini telescopes on Maunakea to get a more detailed view than ever before, of […]
October 23, 2019
The nearest large galaxy to us – the Andromeda Galaxy – is a good place to study the history of galaxies like our own Milky Way, […]
October 8, 2019
A team of astronomers using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons […]
October 8, 2019
An international group of scientists has used observations from the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Maunakea to observe enormous filaments of gas in the early Universe, […]